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"[W]e see candidates who are willing to pander to this politically paranoid, hyper-partisan sentiment" [,,, / ...] "[T]he netroots often argue from anger rather than reason, and too often, their object is personal release, not political persuasion."
From a WSJ Opinion Journal .com "Best of the Web Today" entry, Strange Bedfellows (scroll down), more follows:
Strange Bedfellows [/] Sen. Joe Lieberman gave a speech yesterday in which he had tough words for the left wing of his party:
There is something profoundly wrong--something that should trouble all of us--when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran's murder of our troops, than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops.
There is likewise something profoundly wrong when we see candidates who are willing to pander to this politically paranoid, hyper-partisan sentiment in the Democratic base--even if it sends a message of weakness and division to the Iranian regime.
Jon Ward of the Washington Times reports on another speech yesterday that struck a similar theme:
Karl Rove teed off this afternoon on the liberal netroots, the coalition of far-left blogs and advocacy groups who are a new power bloc in the Democratic party. . . .
Mr. Rove cited the results of a study that found that writers and commenters on liberal blogs such as DailyKos.com cursed far more than writers and commenters on conservative Web sites such as FreeRepublic.com.
"My point is not that liberals swear publicly more often than conservatives. That may be true, but that's not my point," Mr. Rove said. "It is that the netroots often argue from anger rather than reason, and too often, their object is personal release, not political persuasion."
When Al Gore's running mate and George W. Bush's political strategist sound like echoes of each other, that gives you some idea of just how kooky the fringe left is.
[My ellipses and emphasis]
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